Conchita, Concha, La Velasco | Cinema

2023-12-02 22:32:57

Updated Saturday, December 2, 2023 – 21:32

Concha Velasco has been queen of the stage, the platter, the big screen, the small screen and wherever they let her.

Luis Garca Berlanga and Concha Velasco.ERNESTO CAPARROS

Concha Velasco died on the day of neighborhood cinema. Also a few months before the Goya Awards ceremony is held in Valladolid, his hometown. It was, of course, a coincidence, but why not see it as a last act of dedication to the show of one of the few (very few) total stars that Spain has given.

Concha has shared profesin with Marisa Paredes (first actress), with Hello there (singer ye-y), with Isabel Gemio (presenter), with Alaska (icon) the con Ana Obregn (nice attempt at all of the above). She has been queen of the stage, the platform, the big screen, the small screen and wherever they let her..

She dies converted into a totem without ever ceasing to be that girl from Valladolid who wanted to take on the world.

I started in Madrid. Today the capital is an hour from Pucela; then the trip was much longer in time and, above all, in concept. He went from Conchita to Concha and from there to La Velasco. With its lights and shadows, of course. The second ones were hers, unless they were also susceptible to becoming entertainment and legend..

She does not write her roles or direct her shows but, like all total stars, it is impossible to consider her a mere performer. I understood Antonio Gala, Pedro Olea or Mario Camus better than anyone., who trusted her for some of their most important projects. And she had no problem telling how she finally worked with Berlanga. What’s more: it turned his arrival in Paris-Timbuct, the master’s last film, into, as we would say now, quality content. There, La Velasco also had a lot of wisdom and a lot of artistic blood..

She had a lot of fun about showing her breasts at 60, making it very clear that that decision, right or wrong, was hers. She was not always a completely free woman, but she symbolized the desire to be. One of total.